Purple Princess Diaries

The musings of a totally purple obsessed crafter!!!! You name it, if it's purple I WANT IT!!! I'm a rubber stamping card maker who dabbles with making ATC's, scrap booking and more recently art journaling and canvases! I love to distress and I love to make a mess!!! I'm also pretty obsessed with Christmas and make a lot of cards for the occasion. Check out my blog below and leave a comment if you like what you see ....... thanks for stopping by

Tuesday, 15 August 2017

I know you don't usually expect a post from me on a Tuesday but today's post is published because I have the honour of being a Guest Design Team Member over at Through The Craft Room Door today. Their challenge, as always, is ANYTHING GOES and here is my make for this week's challenge .. using a digital image from this week's sponsors Crafts and Me, it's a little different from some of my recent work but I hope you will like it nonetheless

My card

And a closer view of the colouring

The front, back and inside of my card, along with the front and back of my envelope

Monday, 14 August 2017

Balloon Fiesta this past weekend and we had been so disappointed. Our pals drove 75 miles to see balloons only to find it was too windy for the mass ascent. Sunday evening saw us with dinner guests who said they had seen a fair few on the journey to ours so we assumed we'd missed out again with the wind in the wrong direction .... WRONG. Whilst "resting" between our starter and main course we nipped outside and saw these ....

This one came to earth about ¼mile from us

And time for a little crafting ....I've an ATC to share with you again today, I really love the format of ATC's and should perhaps get more active in swaps again as I've amassed quite a few now!

My ATC

Materials used:

ATC blank

Snippets of card in orange, turquoise and white

Stampers Anonymous crazy dog image stamped twice using Memento tuxedo black ink, once on to my white snippet and once on to a pieces of post it which I then cut out to use as a mask

Faber Castell polychromos pencils used to colour the image and background and colours blended using sansodor and a paper stump

Once colours I positioned the mask over the dog and then a section of post it with a stright edge lined up between the orange and the turquoise coloured area

Trundled off to check out the Bristol Balloon Fiesta yesterday - snagged ourselves a prime position at a local hostelry and, armed with a cocktail, settled down to enjoy the view .. guess what? NO MASS ASCENT, still, it was worth it for the cocktail!

Saturday, 12 August 2017

Couple of crafting makes to share with you today ... the first is a prickly ATC ... using, for a change, my pro markers this time as I SOOOO wanted some very vibrant colours.

My ATC

And a closer view of the actual image and sparkle

Materials used:

ATC blank

Snippets of card in purple and white

Woodware "succulents" image stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink

Pro Marker alcohol markers to colour .... the faux "Regency stripe" was actually unintentional - my yellow marker is running low on ink and the broad chisel top produced the above result, however, I quite like it!

Kaisercraft Aztec borders stamped using Memento rosebud ink

CASual Friday sentiment stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink

White Tsukineko gelly roll gel pen used to doodle a border on the purple layer

Stardust stickles used to bling up the flower petals and centre

Plaid dimensional gloss applied to the pot to make it look a tad more "ceramic"

It's the weekend of the Bristol Balloon Fiesta and we are lucky enough to (occasionally) be on their flight path. Yesterday morning they were fairly close ..... in previous years we've been lucky enough to have them fly right over the house but this was as close as they came! This morning? Just two and they were far too far away to photograph!

This was not long after 07:15 .. though looking at my camera, it rather looks
like I forgot to change it's clock at the last change! Ooopsie, hardly worth bothering now, for 8 weeks or so!

Friday, 11 August 2017

Morning all,Hope you've all had a good week, shame about the weather .. those of us in the UK have had pretty changeable weather and can't really leave the house without an umbrella and those in Europe just plain can't leave the house - in the afternoon, because it's too darn hot! Take care whichever way your weather has been, and will be!

I'm back to making the ATC's - it seem like I just can't keep away! This ATC has my ratty little friend sneaking past the skirting board and it looks like he's been spotted ... "Hey buddy"!!!

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About Me

I'm married to an avid radio control model plane enthusiast - every man should have a hobby, especially if it leaves me free to craft without GUILT!!!! We have no jobs, kids or pets which leaves us free to indulge ourselves and our favourite joint hobby!! When we're not travelling we are both free to indulge our hobbies and mine is rubber stamping. Mostly I make cards and ATC's though I've been gradually getting more and more in to mixed media, art journalling and scrap booking!. I'll have a go at most crafts . . . some even more than once!!!

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Please be advised that all photographs and craft projects (unless otherwise credited) are the copyright property of this particular Purple Princess and may not be reproduced without permission, though I'm happy for you to use my work as inspiration - and would ask that you credit me, with a link to my blog if you are simply CASe-ing my work.